Air pollution: 18 arrested in Greater Noida for flouting NGT orders
Eighteen people were arrested in Gautam Buddh Nagar’s Greater Noida for allegedly violating the National Green Tribunal’s orders on checking air pollution, officials said.
This is the first such action in Delhi-National Capital Region in which arrests have been made at construction sites where material was found uncovered and dust was blowing, they said.
A team of subdivisional magistrate, Dadri, Anjani Kumar Singh, Police Circle Officer, Bisrakh, Nishank Sharma and officials of the Central Pollution Control Board carried out inspections at the construction sites where dust was blowing in violation of the NGT orders, the district administration said.
“Eighteen people were arrested under Section 151 — of the Environment (Protection) Act, 1986 — and have been sent to jail,” it said in a statement.
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